Editorial note: We feel to keep
the author’s name of this testimony below anonymous for reasons of personal
safety.

If you’ve ever felt
like God has betrayed you, or that you would like to have a greater
understanding of the demonic realm and how it affects Christians, we highly
recommend you read this testimony. The author of this testimony has not only
experienced "seeming betrayal by God," but has learned some very painful
lessons to share what she shares ... which we believe will benefit multitudes
who also feel like they are ready to give up on God. -
Norm Rasmussen, Founder, Precious Testimonies

I became a Christian when I was 18. I was
born in Southern Russia. I was very passionate about
Jesus, active in Church, was baptized by the Holy Spirit and shared the Gospel.
God has blessed me a lot.

When God baptized me with the Holy Spirit I had a strong
desire to tell people about Jesus. I was sharing the Good news about Christ
almost everyday. I felt very close to God. I used to spend hours praying and reading
the Bible.

Once I had a nightmare. The devil was chasing me in my
dream. He swore to me that he would get me. When I woke up in the middle of
the night, the fear did not go away. It just intensified. The fear filled every
cell of my brain and was driving me insane. I knew I was in the presence of
evil. I was in my room, but everything looked like I was in another dimension.
I desperately started praying and praising God. This was the only thing that
kept me in a right mind. I prayed almost all night. The evil left only early in
the morning.

When I shared my experience with one of the
American missionaries in my Church, he told me that the devil is chained and can
never harm any Christian. I was never taught anything about spiritual warfare
and I did not have any idea that I had to do something to resist the enemy.
I have learned the truth the hard way. Only three years later did I learn
that the devil is alive and well on planet Earth and he hates and fights
against everyone who decides to commit his/her life to Jesus Christ.

Very soon after my baptism by the Holy Spirit, I
subconsciously started feeling that I was more special to God than any other
Christian and other people. I started feeling that way because of all the
material and spiritual blessings that God gave me. My tutoring business was
prospering in Russia; I received grants to travel abroad and in addition, I was awarded a
full scholarship to attend a graduate school in Columbia University in New York.

During one of my prayers, God told me that I had to repent.
God warned me about my pride and told me to repent or I WOULD FALL. He said
that I was no more special than anybody else. He also told me not to
judge others. Unfortunately, I was more excited about the fact that God was
speaking to me than the fact that I had to obey Him and did what He told me.

Living in New York City…

Four years ago, as of this writing date, I moved to New York to study towards a Master’s degree at Columbia University.
In New York, things did not go the way I had hoped
for. I had a lot of struggles and did not understand why God allowed me to
suffer so much. Even though God blessed me a lot with a full scholarship to
study at Columbia, I did not trust Him and did not thank
Him in my difficult times. Instead, I hated New York and Columbia and I started grumbling and
complaining a lot.

This was the beginning of my fall. I became very depressed
and was in agonizing pain and fear. I fasted, regularly prayed, read the Bible,
and went to Church, but the agony and fear did not go away; it was lacerating
my soul so that it was even hard for me to walk and to talk. Every movement
required so much strength. It felt like someone was dragging me down and
hindering my movements. I was constantly harassed by the devil who was telling
me that I was a total loser and a failure.

After a year of my agony, God drew me back to Him for a
very short time. He spoke to me and I wrote down His Words in my diary. Only in
two years did I understand what He told me. God told me that I would have a
very severe trial and I would suffer a lot, but He promised to get me through
all my sufferings and produce very fruitful change within me.

While I was hearing God’s voice I was also
be able to hear the voice of a demon. I was completely oblivious to the fact
that demons
can counterfeit God’s voice to deceive Christians. I did not know that I had to test
every word against the Bible. That’s why -- when I heard that I would get the
internship in World Bank and would meet my future husband in D.C. -- I believed that it
was from God. The demon was speaking to my fleshly desires. I liked it
and I believed it. I had some doubts, but I also thought that God could
never allow a demon to deceive me.

Shortly after that, my only Christian friend in
New York left the City for the summer. I was
left alone. Even though I lived in the City for a year, I still did not have
Christian friends. I attended the Church, but still did not know anyone
there.

I became even more depressed. I was completely alone and
did not have anyone to share my struggles with. I thought that God did not care
and did not love me anymore since He did not answer my prayers to find a church
and have Christian friends. I hit my bottom when I failed my interview in
the World Bank and was not given a job offer. I could not understand why God
allowed a demon to deceive me. I did not want to live anymore and started
thinking of committing suicide. I could not bear my incessant agony.

Then I realized that I could not even die because I would
go to hell and be in even more pain for eternity. I felt trapped. I did not
want to live and could not die. I felt like I lived in hell. The pain was so
bad that I even started cutting myself with a knife because physical pain was
much more bearable than spiritual torment. The evil was always around me,
penetrating my brain, tormenting my soul, always ready to speak to me and
dragging me down. The more I prayed and read the Bible the more I was
harassed by the voice, and the more agony I had. I did not know what to do and I
was unable to resist.

Then I did something unspeakable. I could not take
the pain anymore and I broke. I became so angry with God that I told God to get
out of my life. I told Him that I hated Him and I did not want to talk with Him
anymore and be with Him. Since I often talked to Him, I needed to literally
make myself stop thinking about Him. I stopped praying and reading the
Bible. I decided to follow my way. Little did I know the dire
aftermath of my decision. I did not realize that I left God and turned to
follow the devil. I didn't realize that you either serve God or Satan --
there is no third option.

I now realize that God was always watching over me
regardless of all my bad decisions.

In the middle of the summer I found a church and made several friends. I finally had someone to
talk to and go out with. New
York is a very difficult
place for Christians. Now I understand that my friends from church were going
through a lot of struggles as well. However, being personal and praying for each
other and focusing on Jesus were not the things that we did. Pursuit of
successful personal careers held much more importance.

One Sunday I met a guy at church. I instantly became
attracted to him. Looking back ... I understand that the moment I turned my eyes
from Jesus I became completely vulnerable to Satan. It gave him power over me
to control my feelings and my thinking. And since I did not have love for God
in my heart, I needed a substitute. I became obsessed with that guy.

When I realized that my relationship with the guy would
not work out, I started praying to God and reading the Bible.
Nevertheless - I
never asked God to be the Lordof my life again. I just wanted Him to help me
in the mess I made. By not giving all my life to God I was powerless to break
the relationship. I did not know back then why I could not stop that guy from using
me, and could not say “no” to him. I was trapped in my own feelings and was not
able to escape. I knew with all my heart that I was sinning against God.

I was trapped in this relationship for a year. Since this
guy did not read the Bible and did not like talking about God, I decided to
stop doing it as well. So I turned more away from God and I finally withdrew into myself.

After my graduation, I worked in New York for a summer. I had a job with a
prestigious investment bank and I was very good at what I was doing. My boss
told me how much he liked my work and how smart and talented I was. I became
even more proud and conceited. After my relationship with that guy ended, I felt
I
needed to turn to something else to fill the void. I still thought that I did
not need God. I still was angrywith Him for not giving me what I asked
Him for. My career became my idol. I worshiped my idol fervently.

Living in Moscow…

When I went to Moscow, I
arranged ten interviews with the top foreign banks. Surprisingly to me, things did not
work out. I was not able to find a job I wanted. I know now that a part of each
interview ending in "defeat" was
my arrogant and proud attitude that seemed to help me so much in New York, but no one needed this
arrogant attitude in Moscow.

I ended up with a job that I hated. I had to leave it in three
months. I was able to find another job in Moscow.
When I was told to leave my second job, because I was not a perfect fit for the
position, and when I was turned down in all my interviews in London, I realized that God had been trying very hard to get my
attention.

I lost my second job in April (2004). I had a number of
interviews, but no job offers. Nothing was working out for me. And God finally
got my attention. I started praying to Him. However, I felt it would be
impossible for me to repent. I downloaded the Bible from the internet because I
had thrown away all my Bibles when I left New York.
I
started reading the New Testament again.

One day, when I learned that none of my interviews were successful,
I cried out to God for help. I felt desperate. Then I started hearing the
voice of the devil again telling me that God does not love me and He will not
forgive me and I have to throw myself out of the window. The voice was very
convincing and powerful that I thought that I would go insane. Weeping, I
opened the Bible and started reading out loud even though I could not
understand a single word ... but the voice was gone.

I realized that I had sinned greatly against God and needed to
know whether He could forgive me. I remembered the stories in the Old Testament
of Israel -- kings who sinned against God, but then repented. I started reading
those stories. I realized that my pride and my disobedience were two of my
greatest sins ... not all of them of course.

During the time of my turning to God I found the website
of Precious Testimonies. (www.precious-testimonies.com) I read almost all
the testimonies on their website. I was so moved by the love of God in the lives of people. I was
also touched by suffering and pain everyone went through to find Jesus Christ. I
needed so much to know that God could forgive my sins.

Through the Bible, and
the testimonies, I realized that I did not give Jesus ALL my life
and that I was holding onto what I wanted and was afraid to let it
go and give it to Jesus. I also realized what great power my sins gave to
Satan to ruin my life. I learned what is like to go the devil’s way. I do
not want selfishness anymore. I wanted to serve Jesus even
though it would not be easy and sometimes very hard. But Jesus gives true life and He knows what is best for me.

God was very merciful and gracious to me and His Holy
Spirit led me to repentance. He condemned my pride and my disobedience and my
sexual impurity. On
June
12, 2004, I accepted
Jesus as my Savior and Lord and asked Him to forgive all my sins and to be the
Lord of ALL my life -- not only part of it. I told Him to take all
my selfish dreams and desires and put in me His
dreams and desires. I gave Him
all my fears. I told Him that I did not want to serve Satan anymore and that I
wanted to serve Him - Jesus. All my past decisions led me to a complete collapse.
I wanted Jesus to take charge of my life and change it the way He wants it
changed, and not the way I want things to go.

I felt such a relief. For the first time in three years I
was walking on the streets smiling and breathing freely again. I felt so light and so
free.

I was living in Moscow for
almost a year, but I still did not make a single Christian friend. Before my
repentance I attended another Christian Church but I still did
not know anyone. Because of my New York
habit of being impersonal I found it very hard to open up and share with
people. This was the reason that no one knew what I was going through and this
was the reason why I did not have anyone to tell about my struggles.

After my conversion I thought that I would be able to come
to God on my own by praying, repenting and reading the Bible. But in a
few days after my repentance I felt like all hell broke loose against me. I
started seeing a hairy creature. This image was always before my eyes for
several weeks. I was praying and praying and reading the bible. I fasted. I
claimed the blood of Jesus on me. This awful image did not go way. I felt like
I was going insane. At night I barely could fall asleep; the voice started
telling me again that God could not forgive me because I had sinned against the
Holy Spirit and committed the sin that Jesus could not forgive.

The next day I woke up bitter and angry. I felt the burden
and heaviness again. I started praying to God, asking Him to forgive me and
thanked Jesus for dying for me. But my struggles were getting harder and
harder. That day I realized that I could not fight the devil on my own. I
needed help. I desperately needed someone to pray for me.

The Truth has been revealed…

When I realized that I desperately needed someone to pray
for me, I decided to forward my prayer request to ministers of the Precious Testimonies
website. The ministers not only prayed for me, but also gave me an important
guidance via e-mail. It was they who opened my eyes to the truth – that the
devil is alive and well on earth and he wages a war against Christians. I
understood that it was the demons that inflicted me with so much pain and
sufferings. And it was NOT God to blame for my sufferings. I have also learned
that the devil sifts all Christians like wheat. The enemy attacked -- persecuted Peter and Paul
and the rest of the disciples and he does
it today with no less intensity and fierceness.

Spirit Realm…

When I was being oppressed by the enemy just
after my repentance, God opened my eyes to see some of the spirit world. As I have mentioned,
I instinctively thought that I was going insane when I saw a hairy
creature. After sending my prayer request, I felt a great peace. I knew
that somebody started praying for me.

However, I continued seeing the demons
around me. When I woke up the next day, I not only saw the evil spirits around
me, but also I was able to see my angel. The images were transparent. I
was not scared at all. I was able to see into the spirit realm for a
couple of weeks. God taught me invaluable lessons during that time.

Lesson 1:Demons cannot stand hearing the
Word of God.

Once I came home from Church and was reading the Scripture.
I looked up and I saw a couple of evil sprits. I started praying to God for
help. I was not scared but was simply uncomfortable to be able to see the evil
spirits. While I was asking God to help me, I heard the voice in my spirit
saying “Read the Scriptures.”

I asked: “What?” The voice repeated: “Read
the Scriptures.” I obeyed and started reading the Scriptures. But in a little
while God said to me: “Read it out loud.” I got a bit confused, but God
repeated: “Read the Scriptures out loud.” When I started reading the
Scriptures out loud I noticed the evil sprit covered its ears with its paws and
started moving its body like in a great torment. This is how I learned that the
demons cannot stand hearing the Word of God. The Word of God applied in faith
and truth is a great weapon against the powers of darkness.

Since then, I have developed a habit to read
the Word of God out loud. I have also downloaded the New Testament in MP3
format. When I am at home I almost always keep my audio Bible on. I listen to my
audio Bible while I eat, while I cook, while I do my make up, etc. A number of
times God brought to my attention very important verses and explained their
meaning during the time when I was eating or getting ready for work. My roommate
asked me once what kind of recording has won my full attention that I have been listening to it
24/7. I shared with her my reason for doing so, though I know she didn't
fully understand.

I also downloaded an audio New Testament on my Pocket PC.
When an opportunity arises I try to listen to the Scriptures at work. Many
times during the attacks of the enemy at work, I resort to listening to the
Bible as one of my methods that assists me in winning my battles.

I also learned that demons are especially tormented by the
Book of Revelation, in particularly chapters 17, 18, 19 where the Scriptures
talk about their final destiny. They absolutely can’t stand hearing the verses
about the fallen Babylon and the verse about the devil and his
false prophets thrown into the lake of fire.

There were several times when I have threatened demons to
read the Book of Revelation if they did not stop their harassment and did not
recede. Of course, I always kept my word and read parts of the Book of Revelation to them anyway. This
particular technique is not a panacea. It does not guarantee a victory in all
attacks, but it is a good complementary weapon on our side. God always helps me to come
up with a particular verse that
is able to silence the voice of the enemy. I have learned that not all the
verses can silence the harassment of the enemy, but only those verses that apply to
a particular situation. For example, waiving the sword in the air and hitting
to the left when the enemy is to the right does not help to overcome the enemy.
It is only when launching the blow to the target can one win the battle. The
same is true with the verses in the Bible and the enemy’s lie and harassments.
Only specific verses can silence the harassment of the enemy; that’s why it is
ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE to study the Scriptures diligently and to memorize the
verses.

Jesus’ 40-day trial in the wilderness - when
Satan tempted Him - what did Jesus do? He replied to Satan with only the appropriately applied written Word of God. He dueled
in out with Satan with the Sword of God, the Sword of the Holy Spirit, the Word
of God. Notice ... Satan quoted Jesus the Word, but only in
half-truths. Half-truths are always lies designed to
bring deception to mankind and to thwart God's will for the human race.
Jesus quoted 100% Truth back to Satan, and notice ... Satan had nothing
to combat Jesus' strategy. Satan suffered 100% defeat in the battle.
God didn't just "haphazardly" or "thoughtlessly" have this encounter recorded in
Scripture for us to fill up a few blank spaces. He couldn't make it any
more clear to you and I: Fight demonic attacks with the accurately
applied Word of God.

Know the Word ... Believe the Word ... Know when to
accurately apply the Word (don't be quoting the Word out of
context in your situation or the demons will laugh at you!) ... and speak
the Word of God out loud, sing scripture songs, pray the Word in prayer, at the demons around you, (though
you may not ever be able to see them) -- listen to the Word of God spoken ...
every creative way you can think of, use the Word of God against the problems
you face, of course, by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

All else can fail, but it is impossible for the Word of God to fail because
God's Spirit simply happens to be the supreme enforcer of God's Word. God
cannot lie; therefore God's Word cannot lie. God's Word can be
misunderstood by mankind and erroneously applied to situations here on earth,
but that never happens by the assistance of the Holy Spirit. That always
happens by demonic powers and the fleshly thinking of mankind who simply doesn't have full illumination
-- full revelation of God's Word, or they have twisted scripture without
most-likely knowing, to make it say something that God has not clearly indicated
it was meant to communicate to us. As God has written: "Heaven and earth will pass away, butmy words will never pass away."(See: Matt. 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33). When one
receives the full illumination that Jesus Christ is The Word, it should surprise
no one that His "words" will never pass away.

Very often they disguise their deceit so subtly that it is
very hard to distinguish between their voice and your and my thoughts.
Therefore, constant feeding your brain with the Word of God, praying and
standing alert and vigilant are crucial to be able to distinguish your thoughts from the lie of the
enemy.

When I learned the truth about the furiousness of Satan
and his demons, I started recognizing a lot of their subtle attacks, mainly
attacks to convince me in their lie. I have realized that a lot of things
that come to my brain do not come from me nor of the Holy Spirit all the time, but come from the demons
frequently.

The fact that I was able to see how demons operate around
me has helped me immensely to recognize their attacks and fight against them.
It is absolutely crucial to recognize their attack in its inception and not allow
them to take any hold in your mind. The first thing that they do is to inject
the lie in our mind. If any lie is accepted by our mind, it is extremely
difficult to recognize the lie later on and fight against the demons. No wonder
the Scriptures give us so many warnings, calling us to be sober at all times,
girding up our mind, be alert, watch, be not conformed to the pattern of this
world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind (renewed by the Word of
God).

I have learned that controlling my mind is a must thing.
For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God
to the pulling down of strongholds, pulling down imaginations and every high
thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ [His Word;The
Word, emphasis mine] (See: 2 Cor. 10:4-5). It is an
unceasing battle for me to bring my every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ and to destroy every high thing that demons try to exalt in
my mind against the knowledge of Christ.

I recall one particular attack when my mind was so
strongly attacked by the enemy that I had to read the Scriptures out loud
without ceasing for several hours.

When the demons attack my mind, I also found it very effective
to let them know that I know that they are attacking. Since they like to work
in disguise and do not like to be exposed, letting them know that they are
exposed is one of the effective ways to fight against them.

I remember one particular battle when I seemed to be
unable to stop the enemy’s harassments. The demons continued bringing to my
mind the situation at work where I was despitefully used and humiliated. Then
they were injecting in my mind all possible lies inciting me to hate my
coworkers and rebel against God. I tried everything that once was effective
against them in previous attacks, but this time it did not work. It was an ongoing
battle that I could not find a way to win. And then one morning, when the
demons launched their usual harassments, God taught me an effective method. I
told the demons that every time they would bring in my brain a particular situation
where my coworkers had humiliated me, I would pray for my coworkers, would bind
the demons that control them and would ask God to strengthen His warrior angels
that were fighting against the demons. Sure enough after proving that I was not
kidding about praying for my coworkers, the demons soon receded and the battle
was won. Of course, I continue praying for my coworkers, but during my prayer
time.

Lesson 3:Demons affect your feelings
to deceive you.

(Important note: Before
proceeding with Lesson 3, I would like to forewarn you that the lesson that God
has taught me on feelings is very hard to grasp in theory without personally
experiencing what I describe. I would like to emphasize that I do not
claim that all negative feelings come from demons. I also do
not claim that we must always feel great and uplifted. We humans are
very emotional creatures and are very much affected by adverse circumstances and
experience all variety of feelings and emotions.

Yet, there are times when our negative
feelings come directly from demons. We must always seek God's
guidance and ask God to teach us to discern when our feelings come as a result
of demonic attacks and ask God to teach us to fight against demons afflicting us
with negative feelings.)

I have learned that the demons are capable
of affecting our feelings with sadness, discouragement, hopelessness,
feeling like God has lied to us
or forsaken us (and in my case, actually
felt betrayed by God), feeling
like God really can't be trusted or His Word trusted,
feeling like God is not hearing
our prays, let alone answering them,
feeling like God doesn't love us,
feeling like we've lost our salvation, or if we've gotten extremely angry
at God, feeling like God would
never forgive us, etc., in order to rob you and I of the joy of our salvation
which is in our spirit. I'll say that again so you don't miss that ... it
is in our spirit. I have both learned to fight against the lie and
stand on the truth of the gospel (joy and peace given to me by Jesus in my
spirit) and not to yield to the deceptive power of the demons to deceive me to
believe my feelings, rather than to believe the Truth of God's Word ... and let
the Word of God be the final authority on the matter.

I remember once last summer I came home from
work very discouraged and I saw the demons cheerfully jumping around me because
I was discouraged. That scene made me very furious. The last thing I wanted was
to give the demons’ a chance to triumph and rejoice in my life. So I simply looked
at them, took a deep breath, had my dinner, summoned all the strength that I
had left and said out loud: “God - thank you for my job and thank you for the joy
and peace I have in my spirit.” I went to my room and started reading the
Scriptures out loud. I did not see demons cheerfully jumping around me after
that.

During last summer the demons often were attacking me with
the feelings of discouragement and depression. I vehemently fought against
them. They do not apply that particular tactic to me very often. It is not very
effective because I strive NEVER to follow my feelings. I NEVER read the Bible
because I feel like it and I NEVER pray because I
feel like it. I read the Word
and pray because I am commanded to do it and because I want to show my
allegiance to God. If I recognize that the demons attack me with negative
feelings, I immediately thank God for the joy and peace that I have in my
spirit, rebuke the demons and continue with my business as I have planned.

The demons’ sole purpose in attacking my
feelings is to control me via myfeelings. If I do not follow my feelings, but follow the Word of
God, their attacks are in vain.

I know that demons affect not only our feelings with
negative emotions, but also with positive counterfeit emotions that can be easily interpreted as the presence of God.
I have learned that God never operates via our emotions and feelings. God
operates only via His Word and our faith. Demons ALWAYS operate via emotions and
feelings of their victims so that victims would pray and read the Bible when
they feellike it and not because God commands them to do it. It is
too bad that so many Christians do not realize that just because they feel good
during their prayer or worship, it does not mean that the feelings come from
God. God seldom does anything to us just to make us feel good in the
emotional realm. He has a completely different purpose for us. He
wants to train us to feed our spirit with Truth (God's Word). Truth always
agrees with our spirit who is seeking to please the Holy Spirit. With our
spirit and the Holy Spirit working in unity and in total agreement with each
other ... our emotions will begin to line up, and who is
manipulating our feelings will then become a lot easier to discern.

Once I attended worship at a certain church.
I felt something that I used to call “the presence of the Holy Spirit.” After
the worship I came up to one young lady. The young lady told me that she enjoyed
“the presence of the Lord” so much that she did not want to do anything else,
but only enjoy “the
presence of the Lord.” I immediately asked myself a question, “Is it really the
presence of God? Does my God that I serve call His children to passivity? Or
does my God command that His children be on constant alert and prayer?”

Lately God has taught me never to accept the
feelings of a “counterfeit presence of the Lord” coming from demons. In a
public setting where people are seeking to be in the presence of God, loud music
and lots of yelling from the people and from the speaker/s can easily be nothing
more than working our feelings up to such a heightened state of excitement that
it can be assumed to be the "presence of God" when it's nothing more than the
"heightened stimulation of emotional feelings," and when that happens, Satan can
pull off all kinds of deception that might easily appear to be the work of the
Holy Spirit when in fact the Holy Spirit might be in the toilet vomiting,
graphically speaking. The true presence of God is usually experienced in
solitude - in quietness - in intimate communion with God. Jesus never had
to get all worked up emotionally in a public setting to hear what His Father
wanted Him to do. It was always in a quiet, non-distracting setting that
he experienced "the presence of God."

Yet there have been the reverse of the above
where groups of Christians will "wait quietly upon the Spirit" to visit them.
The "shakers" and the "quakers" and the "tremblers" and the
"laughers" and the "sobbers" have come and gone, will come and go ... and if the
manifestations, whatever they are at the time, do not bear visible fruit where
sin is getting exposed and repented of -- where souls are not getting saved --
where no refreshing ministry of God's Word is coming forth -- where no
substantial healings can be documented by professional medical personnel --
where people are falling down supposedly under the power of God and it does
nothing more than "look good" to an audience of on-lookers ... where demons are
given an atmosphere to manifest in "christians" in mass without adequate
oversight by skilled overseers and wise follow-up in individual cases ...
Christians must be very careful to endorse such supposed "manifestations as
being from God." Though God has done and will do all of what I have just
mentioned, Satan can, has, and will continue to counterfeit these same
experiences. God allows him to, unfortunately for sincere believers.

I have noticed that once the enemy’s attacks are
recognized and vehemently fought against with the Sword (the Word) and Faith
(Shield) the enemy recedes soon. Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 15:57) and
who always causes us to triumph (2 Cor. 2:14).

Introduction to Rebecca Brown’s books

After realizing how strong and vicious my enemy is, I
decided to learn more about spiritual warfare from Christian literature in
addition to learning about it in the Bible and from my personal experience. I
was introduced to Rebecca Brown’s books by one Christian at church that I
started attending soon after my conversion. I was greatly encouraged to see
that many things I have learned in my spiritual warfare have been confirmed by
Rebecca in her books. Receiving a confirmation of my experience has been very
important to me since I have not had anyone whom I could confide in.

In addition, it was equally important to me
to realize that I was not the only one who has been attacked by the enemy. There
are a lot of God’s children that are going through many similar, intense battles. Understanding
this has helped me to silence the voice of the enemy who was harassing me with
the fact “that I am lonely and alone and do not have friends.” By the
grace of God, He does
not dare to do this anymore, because I know that I am neither lonely (Jesus is
always with me) nor am I alone (a lot of God’s children are fighting against
the enemy). Even though I do not have mature Christian friends in Moscow at this
writing, I know this has been arranged by God as a part of my training to learn
to trust Him and rely on Him to teach me how to wage effective spiritual warfare against demonic
powers. I don't want people to get the impression that it's just "me and
Jesus" and I don't need other Christians giving input into my life, and praying
for me and God's call upon my life ... it's just that I'm in a season right now
where God is teaching me a lot of things directly from His Spirit. Only
God knows what will happen in my future.

Satan’s deceptive work at churches

After reading Rebecca’s books I did a Google search and
found her website. At the website I came across two prophesies/visions about the
US elections written by Rebecca’s
husband, Daniel. I was shocked to learn about the enemy’s plans.

I have witnessed many confirmations both in the world news
and at church that Daniel’s prophesy were 100% true and from God. My eyes
have opened to see the enemy’s very subtle work at church including:

- -
Selfish, self-centered
prayers.

- -
Sermons focusing on God’s love as a means of gain and focusing exclusively on
what God can do for us and not what we can do to serve God and walk in obedience
to Him.

-
-
Prophesies about
God’s continual love and never about the need to turn away from our sins and
care for the lost.

-
- Seldom if ever did
I hear in the churches I attended that Christians are going to suffer for Jesus
(and in fact, the more serious they are for God the more they actually probably
will suffer unjustly); that they need to recognize and learn how to deny their
selfishness; that suffering is usually a daily occurrence in one form or fashion
and that they need to take up their daily cross of unjust suffering and follow
after Christ no matter what the pain - no matter what the cost.

- What I did seem to be hearing mostly was a subtle message of what God
will do for me if I adhere to the correct "formulas" and not what I'm
supposed to do for Him to walk in holiness and lay my selfishness
and greed down to help others come to God and grow in God.

Cost of Jesus’ Discipleship

Last September, I volunteered to give a Bible lesson to
shed some light on the cost of Jesus’ discipleship and Satan’s war against
Christians. I made a selection of verses answering the following
questions:

Does Jesus promise wealth to His disciples?

Does Jesus promise complete physical health to
His disciples?

What does Jesus promise to His
disciples?

Did the promises of prosecutions and
sufferings come true in the life of Christians in the New Testament?

Does God tolerate sin in the life of
Christians? Why were Christians persecuted?

Why does the Word of God say that everyone who
wants to live a godly life will be persecuted?

Does God allow the devil to directly attack
Christians?

I noticed that while I was reading the Scriptures
some people became restless. When I got down to reading the verse about the
devil sifting Peter like wheat, one young man burst out with anger. He so
vehemently objected to my reading the verse. He claimed that the verse had nothing
to do whatsoever with Peter’s denial, and he did not even allow me to further
read the Scripture to explain the verse. I had never encountered such strong
opposition to God’s Word from a group of believers, and I did not even mention
anything personally about myself. I was simply reading from the Word of
God!

When I asked the young man to let me at
least continue reading the Scriptures, he said that he would not permit any
false teaching at our small group. Other group members also confronted me and
asked me to tell them my underlying message of reading all those verses. They
did not let me finish reading the verses. They almost fled from my apartment
like I was a witch. I was very hurt and cried.

In a few days God spoke to me. God told me:
“They will
reject your name as evil. Great is your reward in heaven. You will get hurt. I
will help you. Trust in Me only, My Word only. I will come and recompense every
one for his work. Pray for them. The strongholds have to be destroyed first.
The strongholds are:

·Flesh

·Love of material possession

·Love of self

·Pleasure

You will suffer, do not love yourself, deny yourself.
Learn to deny yourself in everything that comes against Me. Read my Word and
pray always. I will glorify Myself through you. This will come through pain and
sufferings that you will have. Learn to be content with what you have. I want
to be the only source of your pleasure and containment. Nobody else. Pray for
the spreading of My word and destruction of the work of the enemy. Learn to
trust Me. Learn to rejoice in your sufferings. Pray for destruction of
lies and deceit that corrupts the minds of My children. I love them all
equally. Submit to My will. Glory belongs only to Me. Pray, always pray.
Destruction is coming on this world. Those who serve Me will survive; those who
do not serve Me will be destroyed. Pray.”

Later I found the following confirmation in the Word of
God.

2 Timothy 3:1-5:
But understand this, that in the last days
there will come times of difficulty.

For people will be lovers of
self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy.

Treacherous, reckless, swollen with
conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Having the appearance of godliness, but
denying its power.

God's
power is given to not only save,
but to heal and deliver and to put to death our selfish, fallen sinful and
disobedient nature ... not a license of constant forgiveness to keep
doing the same sinful acts over and over and dismiss them as though a token
confession is supposed to make everything right between us and God, then go
right back to engaging in the same ungodly acts of disobedience until the next
confession -- repeating the cycle time and time again as though Christianity is
nothing more than: "Hey - guess what. I can sin and as long as I ask
forgiveness, I can keep sinning the same sin over and over and everything is
cool between me and God! I love this kind of Christianity!"

Since my conversion, I have experienced a
number of attacks from the enemy coming from a roommate, my coworkers, and even the members of
my small Bible fellowship and, of course, coming from my fleshly desires. The
enemy is using everything and everyone to tempt me and try to destroy me. I have
learned that Jesus really meant it, when He said “If anyone would come after
me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). During the intensity of my battles, sometimes I feel that my
cross is too heavy. It is overly hard to overcome frequent fierce attacks
of the enemy, but God has always been faithful and provided me with the right
verses to silence the enemy’s harassments and has given His wisdom to humble
myself before Him and not open my mouth before those who falsely accuse me.

I have recently discovered that even in the heat of the
battle when everything/everyone is turning against me IT IS POSSIBLE to retain
the joy and peace that Jesus promises us in our spirit, even though I am
not feeling
joy and peace in the emotion realm. The demons can only hurt me physically (my body) and
emotionally (pain and hurt), yet if I stand on the Word of God, they cannot
hurt my spirit where God dwells. The Word of God, prayer and faith ARE THE
MIGHTY WEAPONS against the enemy.

Breaching the enemy’s ground

In November 2004, I had an incident that spurred me to learn even more
about the devil and the occult as possible. I read an article in the
newspaper about a particular Russian website that was encouraging suicide. The
article was about young depressed/suicidal people who committed suicide as a
direct influence of the website. The article said that the website contained a
lot of information on how a person can successfully kill himself/herself. A
couple of young people who helped to set up the website were later found dead.
The parents of the deceased children filed a lawsuit against the website
administrator/initiator.

After reading the article I decided to check out the website. I was
absolutely oblivious to the fact that the website was inspired by Satan and run
by Satanists. The website is purely evil with images of diseased and dark
background that can make a non-depressed person depressed. Besides the outward
sinister appearance, the website emits spiritual darkness directly affecting
the person who visits the website.

I read several profiles of the people on the website. They all had
similar stories -- severely abused and molested as children; came from broken
homes; were rejected at a very young age by their parents; never had parents’
love or care. I decided to go to the website forum to somehow share with
those people that there is Someone who can heal their pain and
hurt and set them free from depression. I naively thought that I could
reach out to those people.

One person got interested in what I had to say and wanted to know more
about being set free. However, as I began to share Biblical truth, every time
I wrote the name of Jesus Christ it got omitted. In a day I was completely
blocked to make any posts at the forum.

The first night after participating in the forum, I had an awful
nightmare. God woke me up in the middle of the night and told me to pray.
I was filled with a terrifying fear because of the presence of evil in my room.

The next day I felt nauseous. I went on the website in the morning.
One girl posed a question, asking which drug and the amount of dosage she could
take to kill herself. I attempted to post a note to tell her to call upon
Jesus. My post did not go through. That girl got a reply from someone else
advising her to visit a section in the website which gives a detailed overview
of different methods to commit suicide. I realized that I was completely
blocked to post any comments at the forum.

I decided to ask the small Bible group I was a part of to pray against
the website and for the people and for me (because I started having
nightmares). However, my story stirred up much resentment and anger. The group
members sternly forbade me to speak further about the website and then started
inquiring as to whether I was suicidal myself, and whether I was truly
delivered from depression. I could not believe what I was hearing.

Then they sternly told me to leave the Bible group if I did not like
that they prayed a lot for themselves and for few of their friends.
I had never been told before to leave the Bible group. Of course, I was very
hurt, cried and tempted to get up and leave. However, God impressed me to stay,
so I stayed.

I was glad that I stayed because one elderly lady prayed for me. She
told me that I entered Satan’s territory without God’s order. She advised me
that I only pray for those people at the website, but strongly suggested that I
stop visiting the website. I understood that she was right. I knew
that I could not deal with the evil that I have encountered. It was not just
some attacks. No. It was something more -- much more evil that was
not going to overlook the fact that I had breached its territory.

I took heed of her piece of advice. However, my nightmares,
terrifying fear and evil presence at night lingered for awhile.

Two months later I learned that some people who administered the
website forum were Satanists. Had I known that fact before, I would have never
gone to the website in the first place. Thanks be to God for keeping me
safe during my reckless behavior. God did tell me to continue praying for those
depressed people and for distraction of the website.

After that incident I decided to learn as much as
possible about spiritual warfare and the enemy and those involved in occults. I
know that breaching the enemy’s territory without God’s direct leading can be a
very dangerous thing. In my search to understand more about the demonic
realm, I purchased material written by Howard Pittman, Jessie-Penny Lewis and
Rebecca Brown. I would recommend every Christian read the book
written by Jessie-Penn Lewis. It is one of the best-balanced, in-depth
books I have ever read about matters of the spirit realm, as many others agree. I think all Christians can receive a great deal of insight
from God through this book, and it can be accessed by clicking: Here

Summary of lessons I learned from God

God
taught me that every Christian has demons assigned to him/her from Satan
to destroy him/her. Nobody is an exception. God assigns to us an angel or
angels to assist us. If we are allowed to see the spirit world around us
we would see the demons and the angel/s around us.

Demons
always follow us around; they know our weakness/s so they are planning to
attack us when we are the most vulnerable. It is crucial for me to know my
weakness/s and ask the Lord to turn my weakness/s into strength/s. Denying
myself and forsaking everything that I hold dear and has no God-glorifying
eternal value or significance is imperative. It is the
only way of becoming less vulnerable to the enemy.

Demons’
goal is to make me rebel against God, to make me complain, grumble and be
angry at my Master Jesus, and discredit God's people without merit. When I found out that my sufferings and problems
come from the enemy and not from God I learned to redirect all my anger
and fury at demons.

The way I vent my fury and anger at demons when they attack me
is by striving to do everything that God commands me to do and never yielding
any ground to the enemy. I know what the enemy wants from me and I am
determined not to give it to him willfully. Of course, this is a fierce and
difficult fight. I know whom I am facing, the most powerful being after God.
The most vicious enemy that a human can have on this earth. I do not expect any
fair treatment from my enemy. I do not expect that he will simply allow me to
cause a damage to his kingdom and live happily ever after in his kingdom here
on earth. I have counted my cost. Everything in my life is at stake. I know
that the enemy continually demands, either directly or indirectly, from my Father
to allow him, the devil, to try me. And when such permission is granted, I
know that the devil will stretch me beyond my limits. But I also know that
God has promised that He will help me to overcome and endure. Jesus has
never promised that He will exempt me from sufferings, but He promised
that He will teach me to overcome and endure. I am determined to carry my
cross daily to the end, overcome and endure. I am also determined to get a
good reward in God’s kingdom. In my battles I cannot afford to step back --
I do not have anywhere to step back -- there is only moving forward.

There
is nothing more that can send shivers to the kingdom
of Satan and to his army of demons than if the children
of God continue pledging their allegiance to Master Jesus through constant
thanksgiving for their every affliction, torment, humiliation and persecution
from the enemy. God has given his disciples ample scripture to "count
it all joy" when we suffer unjustly by Satan's relentless attacks and bear up
under it, because great will be our
reward in heaven. (The devil constantly wants us to feel like God
is cruel by not letting us have those rewards in this life and we must
be careful to not get feeling too sorry for ourselves if everything seems to be
going against us, otherwise it is something the devil can use to cause our zeal
to be pleasing to God to diminish).

Remember ... this life is very short in
light of eternity. Whatever suffering God allows during our few years on
this earth, no matter how painful it is, it cannot be compared to the eternal
weight of glory it is going to bring us. That is God's Word! (See:
2 Cor. 4:17-18).

To those who feel betrayed by God

If you once were on fire for God, fervent in prayer and in
Bible reading, but gradually have become bitter at God because of your problems
and/or sufferings, the following writing is for you personally.

Since I have been where you are right now and I understand
the emotional pain and depression which you are afflicted by, I would like to
present to you a couple of steps that helped me to obtain freedom from the
power of Satan.

My way to deliverance:

1. God helped me to see that Jesus does not hate me and
does not curse me.

I went to see the “Passion of the Christ”. By watching the
sufferings of Christ I have realized that Christ did not hate me. Demons had
convinced me that God hated me and cursed me and that Christ did not suffer a
lot of physical and emotional pain. Their lie became firmly entrenched in my
mind. I was tormented by this lie for two years. God through the movie broke
the power of darkness in my mind; I saw that Jesus not only did not hate me,
but also suffered greatly for me. This was my first and the most important step
to my freedom.

2. By reading born again testimonies I understood that I
am not alone in my torments and sufferings. Before coming to Christ, many
people underwent much more pain and sufferings than I have ever experienced.

In the beginning of my deliverance process, the demons so
firmly controlled my mind that I could not understand the Bible and I could not
stand hearing or reading the Word of God. Yet, I was interested in
finding out whether there were Christians who encountered similar struggles to
mine. While doing a Google search, God led me to the Precious Testimonies
website (www.precious-testimonies.com)
. When reading the testimonies, God broke another lie of the enemy that was
also firmly entrenched in my mind: I realized that I was NOT alone in my
troubles, as I used to believe; many suffered far more greatly from Satan. In the
testimonies I also was able to see how Satan destroyed the lives of others and
how Jesus Christ set free ransacked lives and gave people freedom and new life.

Truly “they (Christians) overcame
him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
death. (Rev 12:11)

After my repentance I decided to commit my entire life to
Christ. I signed my first covenant with God in which I gave up to God all my
earthly dreams, my desires and hopes. I gave up to God all my rights to decide whether
I would have a career or not and whether I would be married or not. In my
covenant I committed to serve God regardless of whether I am single or married
or whether I have my career or not.

While studying the Scriptures after my conversion, I have
realized that the main reason I shipwrecked my faith was that I was never
taught the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ. In the first century, Christians
were tortured and died for Christ and DID NOT deny Christ. I simply did not get
my selfish desires fulfilled and I rejected Christ!!! Do you think that
made Satan and his demons happy?

In the first century, Christians were taught
the doctrine of Jesus about enduring suffering and persecutions for Christ. I
was never taught or ever heard about counting my cost of following Christ. I
have never heard that I had to endure sufferings for Jesus or that I had to deny
myself, take up my cross and follow Christ. I had never heard or been taught
that I had to give up my selfishness in order to follow Jesus (let alone learn
how to discern what selfishness really is!)

Instead, in Christian books I learned the teachings of
demons about God wanting to fulfill all desires of my heart. Somehow I
must have missed the Chapter in those books that warned me that God most likely
will not grant me the desires of my heart if they are
selfish desires and not a part of
God's will for my life. It was only my
fault that I believed the teachings of demons. I did not do what God commanded
me in His Word. I did not test every spirit against the Word of God and I did
not watch out for false prophets and false teachers; as a result, I believed many
doctrines of demons.

It was my own fault that I believed everything I read in
the Christian books I read. And when Jesus did not fulfill the earthly desires of my heart
and when the troubles came in my life as Jesus promised in John 16:13, I did
not know how to endure and I finally collapsed.

The ultimate purpose of teachings of demons
is to deceive the elect and to cause shipwreck of their faith.

Here are teachings of demons I believed. These doctrines
of Satan are prevalent in many churches, books, tapes and CD's and the Internet:

1) “That God wants to prosper you materialistically and
that ‘being content with what you have’ (See: 1 Tim 6:8 & Heb. 13:5) means
never settling for less than million-dollar contentment.”

2) “That God wants to grant you every desire of your heart,
and His perfect will is to answer every prayer you pray – answering it just the
way you expect Him to.” (In other words, selfishness need not be taken
into account).

3) “That Satan was totally destroyed at the Cross, and that
the devil is powerless over the lives of Christians, so don’t even waste one
minute of your time thinking about the devil anymore. Otherwise, you just
give him glory that is due Jesus.”

4) Satan
is chained and cannot touch and harm Christians -- Satan can only bluff. The
time of Job has passed, because Jesus defeated Satan on the cross, hence Satan
cannot accuse Christians before God. Satan also cannot take anything away from Christians.

5) You do not need to suffer for Christ. Persecutions
are not valid for Christians anymore.

6) God always wants you to be physically
healed without any other issues taken into consideration. What if God
wants to take that sick person home to heaven? What if God wants to teach
that sick person something they would not learn any other way, such as learning
to glorify God in their infirmity? What about people who take communion
without properly judging themselves? Scripture says that people can get
sick and die young for not properly judging themselves. (See: 1
Corinthians 11:29-31). In seems to me that wisdom would have us view
physical healing much like the issue of sin. We know God wants all sin to
be removed from planet earth, but that is not going to happen until sometime in
the future. Though we're on safe ground to believe that healing of all
kind/s certainly is in the atonement for God's people, we must be very wise to
not let the devil shipwreck our faith as we seek God for healing
... especially if the healing doesn't come this side of heaven.

7) Never say, "Nevertheless, not my
will but God’s will be done in my life," if you
did not get something you desired from God. "You do not know God’s will for your
life, hence, you simply need to ask more persistently for God to do for you
what you want."

There are many more -- much more subtle doctrines of demons
being taught. You MUST NEVER believe everything you hear at church or read
in Christian books before testing whether the teaching is consistent with thewhole New Testament counsel of
the Word of God (as well as Old Testament principles, precepts and commandments
that does not contradict New Covenant revelation of truth, but only supports it). How do you do that? The devil delights in taking one
or two words in scripture
that is questionable in it's application and making it say something that
God may never intended for it to say or communicate. Let scripture
interpret scripture whenever possible. Let duplication of scriptural
thought confirm itself to form solid beliefs. Solitary phraseology of a word or two (or maybe three or
four) in our modern-day translations of the Bible arenot to be assumed to
necessarily adequately capture the intended meaning documented in the original
Hebrew or Greek. Words, and how those words are communicated, can change
from culture to culture over time. The Holy Spirit will make certain what
is important to believe and what isn't from Scripture to be pleasing to God the
Father if we'll be humble enough to admit we might be wrong about what we
believe about certain "grey areas" in the Bible.

Yet in our endeavors to understand and
properly apply God's Word, we must never lose sight of the fact that it is the
only trusted source God has given humanity to know God's will.
God's Word is God's will. God's will is clearly made known in His Word.
We are without excuse in saying we can not know God's clearly revealed will to
us, (or guidelines for seeking God's will for our lives on a personal level), if
we are ignorant of God's Word.

Probably the best document one can benefit
greatly from in learning how to safely and wisely learn what to believe about
God's Word can be found by clicking:Here

Remember - in affluent societies, doctrines
of demons seldom teach you that you MUST
SUFFER FOR CHRIST, MUST RESIST SATAN and MUST DENY YOURSELF, TAKE UP YOUR CROSS
and FOLLOW CHRIST. Where material wealth is reasonably abundant, most all
doctrines of demons are very comfortable to our
flesh – they are almost always about what God can do for us and never what
we are to do to PLEASE God.

Satan’s doctrines almost always feed our fleshly,
selfish desires; seeks to pervert the accurate meaning and application of the
Word of God; seeks to discredit the accuracy and authenticity of God's Word;
seeks to strip God of the glory He is due; seeks to deceive and tempt people to
hate God when it should be the devil they should be hating.

Satan wants people to believe hell is not
real so there will never be any Godly fear to turn from their wicked, sinful
ways -- demons do not exist or at least have any power over truly born again
believers anyway, because that way Christians won't seek God for what part they
should be playing in helping combat demonic involvement on this planet and in
the lives of loved ones. The list of Satan's deception keeps going and
going ...

Satan has tried, and will stop at nothing to
keep trying, to keep people from realizing that God's Word is the only absolute moral authority in written form that God endorses and empowers.

This is God’s commandment: That you test all the teachings
you hear at church or read in books or on the Internet and watch out for false prophets and false
teachers. If you aren't well read in the New Testament Bible yet, go to
several different trusted Protestant Bible scholars before forming any solid
belief/s. Any reputable Christian bookstore can recommend some. If
you don't have access to a bookstore, click onto this website and inquire of
them. They are a trusted source to point you in the right direction:
www.gospelcom.net

1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false
prophets have gone out into the world.

Philippians 3:2Beware of dogs, beware of evil
workers, beware of the mutilation!

Remember - the doctrines of demons are very effective in
destroying Christians should you believe them and practice them. The doctrines
of demons will make you either ineffective for Jesus’ kingdom and send you in
pursuit of your selfishness or they will lead you to collapse of your faith.

Satan is dead serious about waging the war against
followers of Christ. ONLY those who abide in the sound doctrine of Christ will
be able to survive the fierce attacks of the enemy and receive the “crown of
life” from God.

You must ask God to teach you how to discern between the
lie and the truth. Remember you can NEVER outwit Satan’s lie by your own power,
ONLY in the power of Jesus will you be able to detect the lie of the
enemy.

I encourage you to study the Scriptures diligently, every
day. God is the BEST teacher. Not a single book or sermon can substitute God’s
direct guidance and teachings. God desires for His children to know the truth
and exercises their senses to discern between good and evil as it is said in
Hebrews 5:14.

I am not the only victim of Satan’s lie; there are many
that are going through similar troubles I went through. It is only because of
God’s great mercy and grace that He drew me back to Him and delivered me from
the power of Satan.

May God use my testimony for spreading the
Kingdom of Jesus and for destruction of the kingdom of Satan.

If you are being tormented by demonic forces, or are ready to give up
Christianity because you feel God has betrayed you like I had been deceived
into believing He had betrayed me, feel free to email me. I will be glad to be
of use to my Master Jesus.

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greater awareness. Especially to
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The attacks upon us personally and against this ministry are not going to stop
because Satan does NOT want ministries like this one
encouraging born again believers to let God use their testimonies ... especially
on the Internet. Video testimonies probably more than written, but God
will use anything you give Him to use! You prayer warriors ... we believe
our call is not just to publish testimonies as we've done in the past, but to
help be a catalyst to motive OTHER believers to essentially duplicate what we
are doing so that God has MANY outreach ministries publishing Jesus glorifying
testimonies and keeping the gospel message of the cross ever before our
audiences. Yet please realize something: PLEASE! Born again
Christians are getting hammered by the devil to NOT write out and/or put their
born again testimony on the Internet. We must NOT let Satan get away with
this! So please, prayer warriors, keep praying that God motivates born
again believers to write out and videotape their born again testimonies and get
them up on the Internet for God to use. Appreciative born again testimonies glorifying Jesus Christ
is the second most threatening thing to Satan there IS
in reaching lost souls until Jesus returns.
The first most threatening thing is that the Body of Christ
would give themselves regularly to united CITY-WIDE PRAYER - bar none.
When Jesus said, "My house shall be called a
house of prayer"... he didn't say it was to be a house
exclusively of
preaching; teaching; testifying; praising, worshipping or anything else house,
did He? We are God's house - God's living temple. His abode is
inside born again believers. God unites with His saints through the
intimacy of PRAYER (Conversation with our Creator) to accomplish His will on
this planet, and when the Body of Christ begins to fully understand His wisdom
of the Church placing UNIFED PRAYER at the very top of the weapons God has given us to
battle evil, we will not fully grasp what God wants us understanding in
regarding to: "Until we all come into the
unity of the faith."
Doctrinally agreeing on the same things is NOT going to happen, so that is not
the "unity" God is talking about. If true Born Again believers can't agree
that our individual prayer AND our united corporate prayer (not
leaving this out of the battle equation as currently is on a global scale) is
our primary weapon to fight Satan, then we've missed everything there is
regarding coming "into the unity
of the faith"! What "faith"
is God talking about here, we need to ask ourselves.
Answer: Faith (believing) that the unified
prayers of God's people - you and I - is the greatest weaponand the most effective use of this weapon God has given His
world wide Church - us individual members of the Body of Christ - to release His
will into the affairs of mankind.

This needs to be repeated
to help try to make it sink in deeply: United - unselfish - Holy Spirit guided, persistent prayer
(not backing off until the Holy Spirit gives release to do so) is the very most threatening
thing to Satan there IS.
He KNOWS He is totally powerless against God when God decides to do something
... but Satan more than anyone else in the demonic spirit
realm fully understands that if he can keep the Body of Christ from regularly
being engaged in united CORPORATE PRAYER against his evil schemes ... he will
continue to make advances and the Church will continue to diminish in influence
and God may well delay the return of Christ BECAUSE of it with a great deal of
unnecessary persecution of believers! God has sovereignly ordained the
Body of Christ to work in united harmony with Him to execute
His will on this planet, and Satan makes that his number one priority to try to
keep from happening in any major way. Are we going to let him keep doing
that, saints?!

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